Georges Frêche: a triumph of deeds over dogma 3 The gaff-prone giant of politics carried all before in the Languedoc-Roussillon’s Regional Elections 3 [(I repeat, I am from the South and will remain so. It…
Thursday 5th March The winter is nearly over……well not quite. I am now looking forward to Spring with a passion. I have had enough of the snow and just want some warm weather and green…
“Molló Parc” – new park for nature lovers After several years of work, 12 hectares of la Berneda, in the valley of Camprodon, 7km from *Prats de Mollo, has been transformed into an animal…
Small Great Revolution The Mayor of Barcelona, Jordi Hereu talks of the future high-speed rail links between Spain and France Basil Howitt offers a third update on the high-speed TGV link-in-progress between Perpignan and…
Tuesday 28th September Arrrgggghhhhh ! I know. September is nearly over! I think aliens must have frozen my head into a time warp which forced it to nod up and down sagely every day and…
Friday 1st October “En octobre, qui n’a pas de manteau, doit en trouver un bientôt.”. A little saying that I’ve picked up and stored away amongst the enormous heaps of useless information stockpiled in my…
Snow shoe walking 3 by Jane Mann 3 There may be one more snow shoe walk this winter. Watch this space! On Tuesday Mike Rhodes led his group onto the chairlift at Formiguères, a wonderful…
Wednesday 3rd March Well, I was intending to start March by informing the world that spring has sprung in the PO but it’s totally wazzing down today and along with the rain, we have had…
Guillaume Bessoule : Sculpting Angels and Demons 3 by Ellen Hall 3 I found Guillaume Bessoule at his worktable, his hands modeling clay into a four-bodied sculpture to be cast in bronze. To complete the…
According to the Indépendant, many camp sites around the region are charging visitors who pop in to see campers as much as 3, 50 euros per person! It seems that a Perpignan family who came…